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Chicago examiner friday Chicago july 4 1913 friday vol xl no 167 a.m price one cent registered in u s patent offlca delivered by cattiai 30 cents per maja 6,000 Chicago car men make threat to join county strike president roach and attorney w w gurley avert action by union heads cars loaned to evanston ordered returned buses to operate in districts while altercation continues schmidt declares no strike breakers will be employed hieago narrowly escaped being dragged into the car men's strike to-day on the county traction and suburban traction companies lines word was yesterday sent over the lines of the Chicago railways company that every cue of the i,ooo employes should be ready lo answer a strike call that would ar vze business on the north and west sides president john m roach and attorney w w gurley averteo the strike by no tifying president emil g schmidt of the county traction company that he must return all rented cars immediately this sensational move of the union offi cials was made about noon president william quinlan and business agent william taber of division 241 waited upon president roach and attorney gur ley and gave them nn ultimatum - y'ou have rented cars to the county traction company said president quin l.'in you are also furnishing them pow er when needed and supplies of all kinds you must withdraw the cars and stop furnishing supplies or the street railway employes on the north and west sides will order a strike orders cars returned the union leaders then left the trac j hon officials and sent word to all the j barns to get ready for a strike the trac tion officials hastily called up president . schmidt and ordered all cars returned arrangements had been made by the j couuty traction officials to carry so.ooo \ t eople to-day the daily average number of passengers is 40,000 on holidays and j sundays in summer this is doubled no strikebreakers will be employed ! said president schmidt if any of our j old men wish to rernaiu at work they will be put on tlie suburban traction line to i i-a grange but if none desire to work | the barns will be closed indefinitely when the citizens of the county out i side the city limits learned through the j examiner that street cars would not be j run to-day there was consternation mayor gaines ij smart of evanston i called up by telephone both the officers j of the union and president schmidt the j mayor complained that several picnics ; one of them for children were scheduled for to-day and asked if something could not be done to postpone the strike he j was told that nothing could stop the j strike buses to start servce only oue iine will be in operation in north evauston to-day that is the bmall electric liue to the golf links ; ! buses will be stationed at the fountain on davis street to take the players and visitors to this electric line we cau support the strikers for a year said president william quiulau of the union our controversy with the company has been in progress more than a year the employes of the couuty traction company and suburban com pany belong to division 241 of which the employes of the Chicago railways ' company are also members if the lat , ter company furnishes cars or supplies of nny kind to the strike-bound roads the strike will spread to the north and west side lines mme.rappold weds during motor trip opera singer marries tenor friends attend reception lattr new york july 3 ln place of a wedding guests who had been invited to attend the marriage of mme marie rap pold the opera singer r.nd rudolf berger tenor 0 r the royal berlin opera to-night found only a reception the reason was the sudden decision of the bride to be i married in new jersey yesterday during a motor trip mme berger explained you see it happened this way we | happened to be motoring and i suddenly i decided i would like to be married at ouce my lifelong motto has been i want a thing when i want it so our friend found a judge and we were married there that is all there is to it i lorimer's daughter sues elgin promoters i mrs ralph graham seeks 50,000 ; fcr injuries b falling grandstand injuries received at the elgin road races j last august led to a suit for fr.o.ooc tiled j by mrs ralph r graham daughter of j william lorimer in the circuit court ! yesterday ngainst the Chicago motor club i and the promoters of the race tho defendant promotors are carlos g j wilson charles e gregory gaylord i warner richard j finuegan w 8 j stalnaker henry paulman h n fow i ler j p frisby w w foreman w i j tucker edward a hearne l r j campbell frank x mudd w j booue j and patrick a mchugh attorney frank j hogan stated last \ night that mrs graham was seriously bun in lhe collapse of a grandstand chuck powers dies was veteran writer , covered half dozen national cam j paigns as reporter i charles j powers exchange editor of j j the tribune and formerly for many years : j one of Illinois best known political ! writers died yesterday he had been crippled by rheumatism for years but was seriously ill t.n'.y three weeks he was ii years old chuck powers as he was known had up to the time of his retirement from the political i_eld per haps as wide an acquaintance as any man in the stale he covered half a dozen national campaigns including the ; conventions of all the big parties lie was educated at andover and yale at i mr powers request his interment will | be in davenport la where his parents i are buried the funeral will be from ! balls chapel 740 south wabash ave | nue at 2 o'cloc this afternoon english celebrate fourth as penance \ london paper comments on british keeping u s holiday special cable to the examiner london july 3 a times editorial j ou independence day enlarges on the significant fact that englishmen now â– join with americans in celebrating the i glorious fourth it has become one of the established | functions of british life says the times and we who rarely commemorate tri umphs in our history make an annual point of joining witli the americaus iu celebrating our greatest disaster and eulogizing washington's memory it menus in the first instance that they are celebrating the most tragic blunder in british history and in the second that they are paying tribute to the memory of the man who brought great britain to her lowest depths of humiliation and impotence it lias come lo be a s rt of annual penrance wife missing husband hunts ex gov yates californian declares woman left | with man posing as lllinoisan mrs yates is indignant former governor's wife says the story is ridiculous she meets him here to-day eureka cal july 3 this town is all wrought up over a mystery the principal figure in the mystery is a young and pretty married woman of eu rekaâ€”mrs e it freeman her husband is searching for her by telegraph and telephone far and wide and he claims that he is almost as eager to learn the whereabouts of a man who represented himself to be richard yates formerly governor of Illinois mr freeman claims that the man he asserts used the name of former governor yates might be able to give him some infoimation concerning his wife he says be put the man he knew as yates and mrs freeman upon a train monday morn ing mrs freeman to go to a nearby place called mccann's mills and yates to san francisco and that he has not seen nor heard of either of them since he did not expect to hear of the man he knew as former governor vates of course but he expected his wire to be home that evening he has not been able to get any trace of her both l.iked the lecturer the freemans are well known in eu reka mr freeman is the leading pho tographer of the town and also keeps an art store both of them knew the man freeman claims used the name of former governor yates who had been giv ing chautauqua lectures on the humboldt circuit and the husbaud says both liked him this is the way ihe husband tells his story mrs freeman met lie man we knew as former governor yates at my store when he chanced to be there looking at curios both of us had been regular attendants at the chautauqua and we were greatly taken by the man and with his lectures asks them to breakfast one evening i delivered a set of pho tographs to the lecturer at his hotel the next morning our telephone rang about g o'clock and i answered it it was the lecturer who asked myself and mrs freeman to take breakfast with him at his hotel because mrs freeman would not have time to get ready we declined mrs freeman then suggested that we go to the train to bid the lecturer good by i accepted the suggestion with en thusiasm we chatted on the platform until he went to buy his ticket when he said to my wife '*' you had better go with me to the end of the line she said she would and i made no objection as she had been invited fo visit friend at mccann's mills he bought her ticket only one way and i suggested tha*t he get a return ticket but i don't know whether he did or uot when they got on the train i returned to business i went to the train to meet mrs b'ree man that evening and when she did not come i supposed she had remained with friends at mccann's mill but i have not seen uor heard of her since reserve hotel room san francisco july 3.-upon the receipt of a telegram from eureka cal monday morning rooms were reserved at ( the palace hotel for a man named yates i the man who had made the reservation arrived at the hotel tuesday morning ; and left that afternoon the managers j of the hotel say they donot know wheth \ er their guest was the former governor i of Illinois or not there was some gos sip that he was accompanied by a woman and the management declined to discuss such a report expects husband to-day springfield 111 july i perfect ly absurd was the answer of mrs richard y'ates wife of former governor yates when told of dispatches from cali fornia to the effect that mr freeman charged that her hnsband and mrs free man had left eureka logo her i received a letter from mr yates day before yesterday said mrs yates and another one to-day when mr yates left springfield he told me that as soon as he reached california he wouid keep me advised of his whereabouts daily in case of sickness al home or any otlier contingency which might triuke it necessary for ine lo communicate with him at once he has done this and i i have known his whereabouts every day since he left here in his letter written sunday and which i received today he said he would leave eureka tuesday for Chicago going by way of omaha why in his letter which i received only to-day he insisted tbat i meet him in Chicago to-morrow morning and 1 wired him that i would do so we will spend part of thc dav together before be leaves for wisconsin to till a number of lecture engagements bryan is president of u s at last absence of wilson and marshall makes him acting chief washington july 3.-"william j bryan acting president of the united states it will be to-morrow and when it became known that the secretary of state would head the government during president wilson's absence at gettysburg official washington slyly whispered at last mr wilson leaves for tiie reunion to-morrow and as is customary when both the chief and vice executive are absent the head of the state department becomes the acting president mr marshall went to the famous bat tlefield to-day bryan keeps japan's new note secret officer of mikadc accused of aiding mexico rebels washington july 3 the japanese ambassador called at the state depart ment this afternoon and handed to sec retary bryan japan's supplemental re joinder to the reply of the united states to the protest against the california alien land law mr bryan declined to disclose the contents of the new note which however was commuuicated to the president the direct and startling information was conveyed although unofficially and from several sources to secretary bryan to-day that a japanese officer was active in recruiting soldiers for the catranza revolutionary army in mexico japanese may cost coast liberty bell petition 2 2 miles long found to contain many duplications philadelphia july 3 the pros pects of the liberty bell going to the western coast for exhibition at the pana ma exposition vvere shattered somewhat to-day when the two and one half mile petition recently sent to mayor klenken burg and the city fathers was examined when the petition arrived it was sun posed to have been the work of the school children oi the western coast examina tion of it proves that it is and that about 40 per cent of the signatures on the petition are those of japanese school chil dren of california and that there are numerous duplications some of the japs having signed the petition fifteen tor twenty times mayor blankenburg is on his vacation and has not been made aware of thi latest development lillian russell goes abroad for summer actress signs contract with cort for 105,000 for americi 'â– tour new york july 3 mr and mrs alexander p moore of pittsburgh saled to-day for europe by the white star liner cedric on their annual vacation abroad mrs moore who ordered her name on the passenger list appear as mrs lillian kussell moore sigued a contract with john cort just before going abroad the contract is for the services of lillian russell for an american tour next season for 103,000 the famous actress wrote the amount herself so the reporter made no mistake don't forget even f i am fifty-two years old i am worth 10_,000 a season she said laughingly man best known by women buyers dies richard g mchugh veteran clerk had v ide acquaintance richard g mchugh who died yester day was known among his friends as the man who was acquainted with more of the women shoppers in Chicago than any other salesman in the city for more than thirty yeara he was connected with the force of the boston | store and he established business friend ; ships which made him a power in the ! organization mr mchngh came to america from county mayo ireland his home during recent years has beeu at 2240 osgood street funeral services will be held to-morrow at st vincent's church sing about cool Chicago christian endeavor delegates want | 1915 convention here t i 1 iir th nexl ('. ... convention Illinois Illinois i we must not format io mention dunoii Illinois i wlieie tlie 000l breeze bjow \_ we want every ono to know to clii'ii.i ii should go Illinois Illinois a special five car train of christian | endeavor deb-kates left yesterday for the twenty-sixth national convention ii los angeles beginning july a they vent partly to brius the 1916 convention to Chicago and tlat was the song they re hearsed as thr entrained it is hoped that the weatl will do us part sn t_e ! delegates wbl^jiot return with a load on their consd^bfe mrs netcher is bride on coast of s neuberger owner of boston store and loop realty marries in port . land ore kept plans deep secret told friends here she was going to take long western trip portland ore july 3 mrs charles netcher proprietor of the boston store in Chicago and solomon neuberger a business ma of the same city living at 134 indiana avenue obtained a marriage license here to-day both are stopping at the mjaltnomah hotel the clerk of which says he is informed the marriage quickly followed the taking out of the license but no one could be found who had actually witnessed the ceremony or professed to know where it had oc curred in obtaining the marriage license mr neuberger gave his residence as fort lanj but it was learned positively that he is solomon neuberger of Chicago when mrs netcher and mr neuberger left the hotel in tlie moruing they informed sever al of their acquaintances that they we:e likely to be members of a theater party in the evening and have supper later mrs netcher left Chicago on june n telling her friends she intended to make an extensive tour of the west in her party were mr and mrs h c levin son and mr and mrs h g hart it is reported at the hotel here that mr neuberger came here the day before the party from Chicago arrived the life history of mollie alpiner netcher has been so romantic and un usual that it cannot be duplicated any where outside america except in the fairy books when she was sixteen years old mollie alpiner went to work in the boston department store kept by charles netcher charles d pardridge and ed ward hillman as buyer for the firm netcher was soon attracted by tie shrewd business sense of the little salesgirl and the fact that she knew the needs of her counter and turned in more cash than anyone else in the place then he became attracted by her per sonal charms and began to pay her court | and at last when they bad been in the j same store six j'ears they were married while he lived charles netcher osten sibly ran the business himself but in reality he was always advised by his keen-witted wife he prospered dis agreed with pardridge bought him n*:t and became sole owuer of the boston store nine years ago netcher died and the mrs charles netcher owner of the boston store and solomon neuberger Chicago business man who were married in portland ore yesterday lamar asked cash asserts j p morgan declares lobbyist wanted money to end the steel trust inquiry new york july 3 j p morgan de ; ela red to-day that david lamar had of fered to call off the investigation of the united states steel corporation by the stanley committee for a price so ridicu lously small that he was ashamed to meu i tion it this statement when takeu together i ith that made by lamar on avedues day before the senate lobby investigating j committee that he had prepared the res j olutiou which resulted in the iuvestiga i tion of the steel trust furnishes the : lobby committee with valuable informa i tion on which to proceed against the lob i byists ridiculously small sum mr morgan when asked if lamar had offered to call off the stanley investiga tion at a price said y'es at such a ridiculously small price that i am ashamed to mention it mr morgan was asked several questions in an effort to have him name the fig ure asked by lamar but he declined to i give it iu view of his statmcnt however it is j believed that the lobby investigating committee may invite him to washing ton to furuish additional details gary knew of lamar's work according to mr morgan e h gary chairman of the united states steel cor poration is familiar with lamar's con nection with the stanley investigation of the steel trust i am sorry said mr morgan that judge gary is not here now as he could tell you more about lamar's connection with the stanley investigation mr morgan was apparently angered at the statement made by lamar on aa'ednesday that while the part he took in the anthracite strike left a very bad taste iu the mouth of some of the part ; ners of j p morgan & co bis frlendly ; relations vith the late j p morgan 'â– continued news ot congres jm investigatiai^Â£^2*m hottest 4th in years promised two deaths fifteen prostrations and 13 bitten by heat-crazed , dogs is day's record a twenty-three-mile breeze from t lie south saved many from heat strokes yes terday when the mercury mounted to 1)4 nnd lingered nearly three hours to-day is expected to be the hottest fourth of july in years with no promise of a show er or breeze to temper the heat two deaths fifteen prostrations report ed to the police and thirteen persons lit ten by heat-crazed dogs is the total of the serious results of yesterday's heat one boy was drowned while bathing in the Chicago itiver the wholesale price of ice was advanced 2v cents a hundredweight but this will not affect the householder tor some time mayor harrison ordered that seventy ad ditional public drinking fountains be in stalled in the congested sections of the city and the work will be commenced to morrow john kararir 2cct allport street died from the effects of heat prostration an drew kolinski a twelve-year-old boy was drowned in the river at clybourn place and southport avenue george martin 716 west seventeenth place died at the iroquois hospital last night after heing overcome in the loop district mrs j h jann 5717 sonth paulina i street fainted in jackson park from j heat last night imai'y hamilton 0741 commercial ave william hoffmau was overcome id front ot 361 west jgadison street lir t identifies wife slain in alley woman is arrested husband weeps over the body of flossie woodruff police hunt man and woman to solve the slaying ; detectives see parallel to killing f bride of 17 and think a barber may have slain wom an in grim mystery one of chicago's most perplexing murder mysteries developed through the rinding of the body of a woman in the darkened alley back of 730 west monroe street early wednesday morning was started ou the road to solution late last night when the body was identified as that of mrs flossie woodruff i*96 groveland avenue the iuenufication was made at shel i don's morgue oil west madison street by the woman's husband harvey wood ruff a restaurant cashier woodruff collapsed when the sheet was drawn from the face of his wife my god he cried it is flossie i woman is arrested events piled up rapidly alter tho identity of the woman was established mrs mabel joslin 370 east twenty ninth street the last known person to . ' have seen mrs avoodruff alive was placed under arrest and the police drag net was spread for t swarthy man be lieved to be her murderer search is also being made for a woman known aa dago itose a west side - saloonkeeper this woman the police say can identify the man for whom they are searching and can tell where he can be located tje murder of mrs woodruff has a striking parallel in that of mrs josephine elardo a seventeen-year-old bride who was murdered by her husband joseph a barber mrs elardo's throat was cut with a razor mrs woodruff's throat was cut undoubtedly by a razor slayer may be barber it is thought possible her slayer might be a barber the police are investigating along this line mrs josslyn's story to the police is a simple narration of events leading up to the tragedy mrs woodruff mr woodruff and i she said met by ap pointment last tuesday shortly after ; noon we met at the woodruff home at about 1 o'clock we started out to go to the buffalo bill circus after ! the circus was over mr woodruff left us | mrs avoodruff and i went out to visit i mr and mrs charles mull owners of a ; roomiug house at 111 south center ave | nue mrs woodruff was well acquainted 1 with the mulls having worked for them lat various times we spout the remaiu der of the afternoon there at 9 o'clock wc started to return home i had never been over ou the west side before and was curious to look around and see what it was like we got on au adams street car at oreeu street we got off and went into a restau rant sees dark-complexioned man we had beeu in the restaurant only a short time when mrs avoodruff spied a dark-complexioned man sitting alone at a table in the corner whom she apparently recognized aa'ithout a word of expla nation to me she got up from our tablo and walked over to him they shook hands and exchanged a word of greeting then mrs woodruff sat down a few minutes later both of / them arose and passed out of the plaoe j as she passed out of the door mrs aa'ood rnff turned back and asked me to wait for her i sat in the restaurant alone until t o'clock that morning thinking i hail misunderstood mrs woodruff and that i she told me not to wait i went home / ' without making any effort to trace h<-i a denies all knowledge jh k"i did not l^jw of her death unt^^fl j ght whert^p detectives catne^fej iw continued on 2d page^th column Chicago and vicinity â€” gen j -^â€” l erally fair friday and saturday ex mj^~j cept probably a shower saturday â€” continued warm friday j-uly f â€” c yesterday's range o temperature t vvl'^n/v > highest 04 j t x.vu*,?*''^tÂ«c lowest 74 fc.l^s akaaiemnnig^knÃŸgbi 3 holidays â€” and holidays 3 Â£ â– Â§ , â€¢ some holidays are distinctly ', tj nei holidays for some people _ m those who are enjoying a holi z day to-day are the avorkers â€” _ Â» those who have situations and _ j are making good salaries , a to-day is no holiday to those m m who have been having holidays \ m right along â€” those who do not , sj have positions they are avish a ea ing they could have avork to '_ m day they can ha\*e avork if a m they will only look where work * *â– is looking for them â€” in the -Â» * want ad columns of this .*- g newspaper employers are - g asking there for help read Â» g that special offer to you in g g to-day's want ads then every *â€¢ g holiday will be ?. i a real holiday * ____ â– ________________________________ t___f______-_____________al â– . â– & the examiner's sworn statement wm of circulation for may ;Â§**â€¢ average number o 1 copies of each issue of this publication kg o!d or distributed through the malls or otherwise io paid b subscribers during the month of may ft daily examiner 241,722 nn sunday examiner 599,224

Chicago examiner friday Chicago july 4 1913 friday vol xl no 167 a.m price one cent registered in u s patent offlca delivered by cattiai 30 cents per maja 6,000 Chicago car men make threat to join county strike president roach and attorney w w gurley avert action by union heads cars loaned to evanston ordered returned buses to operate in districts while altercation continues schmidt declares no strike breakers will be employed hieago narrowly escaped being dragged into the car men's strike to-day on the county traction and suburban traction companies lines word was yesterday sent over the lines of the Chicago railways company that every cue of the i,ooo employes should be ready lo answer a strike call that would ar vze business on the north and west sides president john m roach and attorney w w gurley averteo the strike by no tifying president emil g schmidt of the county traction company that he must return all rented cars immediately this sensational move of the union offi cials was made about noon president william quinlan and business agent william taber of division 241 waited upon president roach and attorney gur ley and gave them nn ultimatum - y'ou have rented cars to the county traction company said president quin l.'in you are also furnishing them pow er when needed and supplies of all kinds you must withdraw the cars and stop furnishing supplies or the street railway employes on the north and west sides will order a strike orders cars returned the union leaders then left the trac j hon officials and sent word to all the j barns to get ready for a strike the trac tion officials hastily called up president . schmidt and ordered all cars returned arrangements had been made by the j couuty traction officials to carry so.ooo \ t eople to-day the daily average number of passengers is 40,000 on holidays and j sundays in summer this is doubled no strikebreakers will be employed ! said president schmidt if any of our j old men wish to rernaiu at work they will be put on tlie suburban traction line to i i-a grange but if none desire to work | the barns will be closed indefinitely when the citizens of the county out i side the city limits learned through the j examiner that street cars would not be j run to-day there was consternation mayor gaines ij smart of evanston i called up by telephone both the officers j of the union and president schmidt the j mayor complained that several picnics ; one of them for children were scheduled for to-day and asked if something could not be done to postpone the strike he j was told that nothing could stop the j strike buses to start servce only oue iine will be in operation in north evauston to-day that is the bmall electric liue to the golf links ; ! buses will be stationed at the fountain on davis street to take the players and visitors to this electric line we cau support the strikers for a year said president william quiulau of the union our controversy with the company has been in progress more than a year the employes of the couuty traction company and suburban com pany belong to division 241 of which the employes of the Chicago railways ' company are also members if the lat , ter company furnishes cars or supplies of nny kind to the strike-bound roads the strike will spread to the north and west side lines mme.rappold weds during motor trip opera singer marries tenor friends attend reception lattr new york july 3 ln place of a wedding guests who had been invited to attend the marriage of mme marie rap pold the opera singer r.nd rudolf berger tenor 0 r the royal berlin opera to-night found only a reception the reason was the sudden decision of the bride to be i married in new jersey yesterday during a motor trip mme berger explained you see it happened this way we | happened to be motoring and i suddenly i decided i would like to be married at ouce my lifelong motto has been i want a thing when i want it so our friend found a judge and we were married there that is all there is to it i lorimer's daughter sues elgin promoters i mrs ralph graham seeks 50,000 ; fcr injuries b falling grandstand injuries received at the elgin road races j last august led to a suit for fr.o.ooc tiled j by mrs ralph r graham daughter of j william lorimer in the circuit court ! yesterday ngainst the Chicago motor club i and the promoters of the race tho defendant promotors are carlos g j wilson charles e gregory gaylord i warner richard j finuegan w 8 j stalnaker henry paulman h n fow i ler j p frisby w w foreman w i j tucker edward a hearne l r j campbell frank x mudd w j booue j and patrick a mchugh attorney frank j hogan stated last \ night that mrs graham was seriously bun in lhe collapse of a grandstand chuck powers dies was veteran writer , covered half dozen national cam j paigns as reporter i charles j powers exchange editor of j j the tribune and formerly for many years : j one of Illinois best known political ! writers died yesterday he had been crippled by rheumatism for years but was seriously ill t.n'.y three weeks he was ii years old chuck powers as he was known had up to the time of his retirement from the political i_eld per haps as wide an acquaintance as any man in the stale he covered half a dozen national campaigns including the ; conventions of all the big parties lie was educated at andover and yale at i mr powers request his interment will | be in davenport la where his parents i are buried the funeral will be from ! balls chapel 740 south wabash ave | nue at 2 o'cloc this afternoon english celebrate fourth as penance \ london paper comments on british keeping u s holiday special cable to the examiner london july 3 a times editorial j ou independence day enlarges on the significant fact that englishmen now â– join with americans in celebrating the i glorious fourth it has become one of the established | functions of british life says the times and we who rarely commemorate tri umphs in our history make an annual point of joining witli the americaus iu celebrating our greatest disaster and eulogizing washington's memory it menus in the first instance that they are celebrating the most tragic blunder in british history and in the second that they are paying tribute to the memory of the man who brought great britain to her lowest depths of humiliation and impotence it lias come lo be a s rt of annual penrance wife missing husband hunts ex gov yates californian declares woman left | with man posing as lllinoisan mrs yates is indignant former governor's wife says the story is ridiculous she meets him here to-day eureka cal july 3 this town is all wrought up over a mystery the principal figure in the mystery is a young and pretty married woman of eu rekaâ€”mrs e it freeman her husband is searching for her by telegraph and telephone far and wide and he claims that he is almost as eager to learn the whereabouts of a man who represented himself to be richard yates formerly governor of Illinois mr freeman claims that the man he asserts used the name of former governor yates might be able to give him some infoimation concerning his wife he says be put the man he knew as yates and mrs freeman upon a train monday morn ing mrs freeman to go to a nearby place called mccann's mills and yates to san francisco and that he has not seen nor heard of either of them since he did not expect to hear of the man he knew as former governor vates of course but he expected his wire to be home that evening he has not been able to get any trace of her both l.iked the lecturer the freemans are well known in eu reka mr freeman is the leading pho tographer of the town and also keeps an art store both of them knew the man freeman claims used the name of former governor yates who had been giv ing chautauqua lectures on the humboldt circuit and the husbaud says both liked him this is the way ihe husband tells his story mrs freeman met lie man we knew as former governor yates at my store when he chanced to be there looking at curios both of us had been regular attendants at the chautauqua and we were greatly taken by the man and with his lectures asks them to breakfast one evening i delivered a set of pho tographs to the lecturer at his hotel the next morning our telephone rang about g o'clock and i answered it it was the lecturer who asked myself and mrs freeman to take breakfast with him at his hotel because mrs freeman would not have time to get ready we declined mrs freeman then suggested that we go to the train to bid the lecturer good by i accepted the suggestion with en thusiasm we chatted on the platform until he went to buy his ticket when he said to my wife '*' you had better go with me to the end of the line she said she would and i made no objection as she had been invited fo visit friend at mccann's mills he bought her ticket only one way and i suggested tha*t he get a return ticket but i don't know whether he did or uot when they got on the train i returned to business i went to the train to meet mrs b'ree man that evening and when she did not come i supposed she had remained with friends at mccann's mill but i have not seen uor heard of her since reserve hotel room san francisco july 3.-upon the receipt of a telegram from eureka cal monday morning rooms were reserved at ( the palace hotel for a man named yates i the man who had made the reservation arrived at the hotel tuesday morning ; and left that afternoon the managers j of the hotel say they donot know wheth \ er their guest was the former governor i of Illinois or not there was some gos sip that he was accompanied by a woman and the management declined to discuss such a report expects husband to-day springfield 111 july i perfect ly absurd was the answer of mrs richard y'ates wife of former governor yates when told of dispatches from cali fornia to the effect that mr freeman charged that her hnsband and mrs free man had left eureka logo her i received a letter from mr yates day before yesterday said mrs yates and another one to-day when mr yates left springfield he told me that as soon as he reached california he wouid keep me advised of his whereabouts daily in case of sickness al home or any otlier contingency which might triuke it necessary for ine lo communicate with him at once he has done this and i i have known his whereabouts every day since he left here in his letter written sunday and which i received today he said he would leave eureka tuesday for Chicago going by way of omaha why in his letter which i received only to-day he insisted tbat i meet him in Chicago to-morrow morning and 1 wired him that i would do so we will spend part of thc dav together before be leaves for wisconsin to till a number of lecture engagements bryan is president of u s at last absence of wilson and marshall makes him acting chief washington july 3.-"william j bryan acting president of the united states it will be to-morrow and when it became known that the secretary of state would head the government during president wilson's absence at gettysburg official washington slyly whispered at last mr wilson leaves for tiie reunion to-morrow and as is customary when both the chief and vice executive are absent the head of the state department becomes the acting president mr marshall went to the famous bat tlefield to-day bryan keeps japan's new note secret officer of mikadc accused of aiding mexico rebels washington july 3 the japanese ambassador called at the state depart ment this afternoon and handed to sec retary bryan japan's supplemental re joinder to the reply of the united states to the protest against the california alien land law mr bryan declined to disclose the contents of the new note which however was commuuicated to the president the direct and startling information was conveyed although unofficially and from several sources to secretary bryan to-day that a japanese officer was active in recruiting soldiers for the catranza revolutionary army in mexico japanese may cost coast liberty bell petition 2 2 miles long found to contain many duplications philadelphia july 3 the pros pects of the liberty bell going to the western coast for exhibition at the pana ma exposition vvere shattered somewhat to-day when the two and one half mile petition recently sent to mayor klenken burg and the city fathers was examined when the petition arrived it was sun posed to have been the work of the school children oi the western coast examina tion of it proves that it is and that about 40 per cent of the signatures on the petition are those of japanese school chil dren of california and that there are numerous duplications some of the japs having signed the petition fifteen tor twenty times mayor blankenburg is on his vacation and has not been made aware of thi latest development lillian russell goes abroad for summer actress signs contract with cort for 105,000 for americi 'â– tour new york july 3 mr and mrs alexander p moore of pittsburgh saled to-day for europe by the white star liner cedric on their annual vacation abroad mrs moore who ordered her name on the passenger list appear as mrs lillian kussell moore sigued a contract with john cort just before going abroad the contract is for the services of lillian russell for an american tour next season for 103,000 the famous actress wrote the amount herself so the reporter made no mistake don't forget even f i am fifty-two years old i am worth 10_,000 a season she said laughingly man best known by women buyers dies richard g mchugh veteran clerk had v ide acquaintance richard g mchugh who died yester day was known among his friends as the man who was acquainted with more of the women shoppers in Chicago than any other salesman in the city for more than thirty yeara he was connected with the force of the boston | store and he established business friend ; ships which made him a power in the ! organization mr mchngh came to america from county mayo ireland his home during recent years has beeu at 2240 osgood street funeral services will be held to-morrow at st vincent's church sing about cool Chicago christian endeavor delegates want | 1915 convention here t i 1 iir th nexl ('. ... convention Illinois Illinois i we must not format io mention dunoii Illinois i wlieie tlie 000l breeze bjow \_ we want every ono to know to clii'ii.i ii should go Illinois Illinois a special five car train of christian | endeavor deb-kates left yesterday for the twenty-sixth national convention ii los angeles beginning july a they vent partly to brius the 1916 convention to Chicago and tlat was the song they re hearsed as thr entrained it is hoped that the weatl will do us part sn t_e ! delegates wbl^jiot return with a load on their consd^bfe mrs netcher is bride on coast of s neuberger owner of boston store and loop realty marries in port . land ore kept plans deep secret told friends here she was going to take long western trip portland ore july 3 mrs charles netcher proprietor of the boston store in Chicago and solomon neuberger a business ma of the same city living at 134 indiana avenue obtained a marriage license here to-day both are stopping at the mjaltnomah hotel the clerk of which says he is informed the marriage quickly followed the taking out of the license but no one could be found who had actually witnessed the ceremony or professed to know where it had oc curred in obtaining the marriage license mr neuberger gave his residence as fort lanj but it was learned positively that he is solomon neuberger of Chicago when mrs netcher and mr neuberger left the hotel in tlie moruing they informed sever al of their acquaintances that they we:e likely to be members of a theater party in the evening and have supper later mrs netcher left Chicago on june n telling her friends she intended to make an extensive tour of the west in her party were mr and mrs h c levin son and mr and mrs h g hart it is reported at the hotel here that mr neuberger came here the day before the party from Chicago arrived the life history of mollie alpiner netcher has been so romantic and un usual that it cannot be duplicated any where outside america except in the fairy books when she was sixteen years old mollie alpiner went to work in the boston department store kept by charles netcher charles d pardridge and ed ward hillman as buyer for the firm netcher was soon attracted by tie shrewd business sense of the little salesgirl and the fact that she knew the needs of her counter and turned in more cash than anyone else in the place then he became attracted by her per sonal charms and began to pay her court | and at last when they bad been in the j same store six j'ears they were married while he lived charles netcher osten sibly ran the business himself but in reality he was always advised by his keen-witted wife he prospered dis agreed with pardridge bought him n*:t and became sole owuer of the boston store nine years ago netcher died and the mrs charles netcher owner of the boston store and solomon neuberger Chicago business man who were married in portland ore yesterday lamar asked cash asserts j p morgan declares lobbyist wanted money to end the steel trust inquiry new york july 3 j p morgan de ; ela red to-day that david lamar had of fered to call off the investigation of the united states steel corporation by the stanley committee for a price so ridicu lously small that he was ashamed to meu i tion it this statement when takeu together i ith that made by lamar on avedues day before the senate lobby investigating j committee that he had prepared the res j olutiou which resulted in the iuvestiga i tion of the steel trust furnishes the : lobby committee with valuable informa i tion on which to proceed against the lob i byists ridiculously small sum mr morgan when asked if lamar had offered to call off the stanley investiga tion at a price said y'es at such a ridiculously small price that i am ashamed to mention it mr morgan was asked several questions in an effort to have him name the fig ure asked by lamar but he declined to i give it iu view of his statmcnt however it is j believed that the lobby investigating committee may invite him to washing ton to furuish additional details gary knew of lamar's work according to mr morgan e h gary chairman of the united states steel cor poration is familiar with lamar's con nection with the stanley investigation of the steel trust i am sorry said mr morgan that judge gary is not here now as he could tell you more about lamar's connection with the stanley investigation mr morgan was apparently angered at the statement made by lamar on aa'ednesday that while the part he took in the anthracite strike left a very bad taste iu the mouth of some of the part ; ners of j p morgan & co bis frlendly ; relations vith the late j p morgan 'â– continued news ot congres jm investigatiai^Â£^2*m hottest 4th in years promised two deaths fifteen prostrations and 13 bitten by heat-crazed , dogs is day's record a twenty-three-mile breeze from t lie south saved many from heat strokes yes terday when the mercury mounted to 1)4 nnd lingered nearly three hours to-day is expected to be the hottest fourth of july in years with no promise of a show er or breeze to temper the heat two deaths fifteen prostrations report ed to the police and thirteen persons lit ten by heat-crazed dogs is the total of the serious results of yesterday's heat one boy was drowned while bathing in the Chicago itiver the wholesale price of ice was advanced 2v cents a hundredweight but this will not affect the householder tor some time mayor harrison ordered that seventy ad ditional public drinking fountains be in stalled in the congested sections of the city and the work will be commenced to morrow john kararir 2cct allport street died from the effects of heat prostration an drew kolinski a twelve-year-old boy was drowned in the river at clybourn place and southport avenue george martin 716 west seventeenth place died at the iroquois hospital last night after heing overcome in the loop district mrs j h jann 5717 sonth paulina i street fainted in jackson park from j heat last night imai'y hamilton 0741 commercial ave william hoffmau was overcome id front ot 361 west jgadison street lir t identifies wife slain in alley woman is arrested husband weeps over the body of flossie woodruff police hunt man and woman to solve the slaying ; detectives see parallel to killing f bride of 17 and think a barber may have slain wom an in grim mystery one of chicago's most perplexing murder mysteries developed through the rinding of the body of a woman in the darkened alley back of 730 west monroe street early wednesday morning was started ou the road to solution late last night when the body was identified as that of mrs flossie woodruff i*96 groveland avenue the iuenufication was made at shel i don's morgue oil west madison street by the woman's husband harvey wood ruff a restaurant cashier woodruff collapsed when the sheet was drawn from the face of his wife my god he cried it is flossie i woman is arrested events piled up rapidly alter tho identity of the woman was established mrs mabel joslin 370 east twenty ninth street the last known person to . ' have seen mrs avoodruff alive was placed under arrest and the police drag net was spread for t swarthy man be lieved to be her murderer search is also being made for a woman known aa dago itose a west side - saloonkeeper this woman the police say can identify the man for whom they are searching and can tell where he can be located tje murder of mrs woodruff has a striking parallel in that of mrs josephine elardo a seventeen-year-old bride who was murdered by her husband joseph a barber mrs elardo's throat was cut with a razor mrs woodruff's throat was cut undoubtedly by a razor slayer may be barber it is thought possible her slayer might be a barber the police are investigating along this line mrs josslyn's story to the police is a simple narration of events leading up to the tragedy mrs woodruff mr woodruff and i she said met by ap pointment last tuesday shortly after ; noon we met at the woodruff home at about 1 o'clock we started out to go to the buffalo bill circus after ! the circus was over mr woodruff left us | mrs avoodruff and i went out to visit i mr and mrs charles mull owners of a ; roomiug house at 111 south center ave | nue mrs woodruff was well acquainted 1 with the mulls having worked for them lat various times we spout the remaiu der of the afternoon there at 9 o'clock wc started to return home i had never been over ou the west side before and was curious to look around and see what it was like we got on au adams street car at oreeu street we got off and went into a restau rant sees dark-complexioned man we had beeu in the restaurant only a short time when mrs avoodruff spied a dark-complexioned man sitting alone at a table in the corner whom she apparently recognized aa'ithout a word of expla nation to me she got up from our tablo and walked over to him they shook hands and exchanged a word of greeting then mrs woodruff sat down a few minutes later both of / them arose and passed out of the plaoe j as she passed out of the door mrs aa'ood rnff turned back and asked me to wait for her i sat in the restaurant alone until t o'clock that morning thinking i hail misunderstood mrs woodruff and that i she told me not to wait i went home / ' without making any effort to trace h highest 04 j t x.vu*,?*''^tÂ«c lowest 74 fc.l^s akaaiemnnig^knÃŸgbi 3 holidays â€” and holidays 3 Â£ â– Â§ , â€¢ some holidays are distinctly ', tj nei holidays for some people _ m those who are enjoying a holi z day to-day are the avorkers â€” _ Â» those who have situations and _ j are making good salaries , a to-day is no holiday to those m m who have been having holidays \ m right along â€” those who do not , sj have positions they are avish a ea ing they could have avork to '_ m day they can ha\*e avork if a m they will only look where work * *â– is looking for them â€” in the -Â» * want ad columns of this .*- g newspaper employers are - g asking there for help read Â» g that special offer to you in g g to-day's want ads then every *â€¢ g holiday will be ?. i a real holiday * ____ â– ________________________________ t___f______-_____________al â– . â– & the examiner's sworn statement wm of circulation for may ;Â§**â€¢ average number o 1 copies of each issue of this publication kg o!d or distributed through the malls or otherwise io paid b subscribers during the month of may ft daily examiner 241,722 nn sunday examiner 599,224